Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Richard Baxter's Practical Works

I love the works of the Puritans. One of the first books I read by a Puritan, without even knowing it was by a puritan was "Today's Gospel -- Authentic or Synthetic" by Walter Chantry, back in 1983 while I was at Grace Church. I remember opening it while I was still in bed and not getting up until I finished reading it.

And that was back when I just thought I was a Christian.

In today's world, the church has so psychologized the Gospel and the Christian Life that it is a faith that is foreign to the Scriptures. Everything, and I mean everything is oriented around man and his "felt needs". The truth has become so diluted as to be comparable to giving an aspirin to a man dying of severe arsenic poisoning.

But man needs the real antidote.

So I recommend the following read which can be viewed from "Christian Classics Etherial Library" Here is a book by Richard Baxter ("The Christian Directory") which knows nothing but the scriptures. No pop psychology, just Biblical thinking.

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About Me

I met the Lord Jesus Christ in 1998. Before then, I had made a profession of faith but now know there was no reality to it. I had no sense of personal sin and a need for a savior. I had "prayed the prayer" but there was no transformation.
It was only after the Lord let me bottom out and see myself as a sinner ripe for judgement that I realized that I needed a savior. There was simply no other remedy.
Paul told the Corinthians "Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith."
If you profess to know the Lord, that is the best advice I can give you.